Colloquium on Critical Theory

17:15 – 19:15 Room C Workshop on Diagnosing the Present: New Critical
Perspectives
Claudio Corradetti: “What Does Cultural Difference Require of
Human Rights?”
Jacob Dahl Rendtorff: “The Ethics and Politics of Recognition
of Cultures”
Federica Gregoratto: “Diagnosing Transnational Public
Sphere(s)”
19:15 – 20:45 Communal Dinner at the Villa Lanna
20:45 – 22:00 After-Dinner Plenary: Critical Theory and The Arab Spring –
2011
Micheline Ishay: “Teheran, Tunis, Tahrir and Beyond: Is
Human Rights Progressing?”
Saturday, May 14 th
Schedule Meeting
10:00 – 11:15 Plenary: Diagnosing the Present: New Critical Perspectives
Regina Kreide: “Politicization: Changing the Semantics of „the
Political‟ in Political Theory”
11:15 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:45 Plenary: Diagnosing the Present: New Critical Perspectives
Claus Offe: “From Migration in Geographic Space to Migration
in Biographic Time: Views from Europe”
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30 Room A: Roundtable on “The Future of the Public
University”
organized by John Holmwood & Gurminder K. Bhambra
15:30 – 17:30 Room A: Workshop on Diagnosing the Present: New Critical
Perspectives
Albena Azmanova: “Crisis? Capitalism Is Doing Very Well:
What Can Critical Theory Do About It?”
Martin Hartmann: “Paradoxes of Contemporary Capitalism:
How To Go On?”
Somogy Varga: “The „Machine‟ of Contemporary Capitalism”
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